Suggeriti dagli utenti:
Cappuccino
Dicono di noi:
2.0 Cloud Café, Via Pietro Romani, 75, Infernetto, Rome
Twice in two days we’ve been into the Cloud Café; our friend and her children lived close by and this was her ‘local bar’ (as-it-were and notwithstanding that the Cloud Café was anything like your typical ‘local bar’ from earlier times). You can see this from the road walking or driving passed – gleaming white paintwork, white umbrellas shading white tables/chairs spread across the pavement in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window that fronts on to the via Pietro Romani. Seating for dozen plus outside and dozen inside (sets of table/2xchairs) but with plenty of floor space for more tables/chairs.
There’s parking for a dozen or more cars against the pavement outside and more, of course, given the depth of the space and the numbers of cars that people are willing to park parallel with the road (comfortably blocking those parked head-in to the kerb). This thing about ‘me and my car’. Problem, however, is that many people are not that adept at reversing out of small parking lots without clipping the car behind/next to them. You quickly learn to park defensively.
In a line of small commercial shops (with more to one side across the via Dominico Ceccarossi), the Cloud Café appears to offer the only option for that traditional caffe/acqua/brioche/tramezzini/pane snack for breakfast/lunch in the neighbourhood. When it’s as hot as it has been this past few weeks – mid/high-30sdegC – no one is going to walk further; drive sure, but then parking is a challenge wherever you are in the commercial centres of Infernetto. A case of Cloud Café or nothing at the Cristoforo Colombo end of the Pietro Romani.
The café is one example of a distinct shift underway in recent times towards the entertainment café and away from the original model – mix of café, gelateria, pasticceria, etc. and offering pane, pizza and cucini/cooked foods – within the sparking mix of white paintwork everywhere including the wooden floor – boutique-like images, potted plants, decorative bottles on shelves, sparkling shiny stainless-steel fittings, uniformed barista/wait staff, fancy logo and more. Oh, and there’s canned music too. Better like those sound tracks. Cafés of this kind are clearly targeting the young/mobile/affluent.
No issue with service – prompt and friendly, and reasonable value. First time round mid-morning we purchased gelati for everyone – five of us - and sat in the cool of the air/con to enjoy it; coni & coppe, each with two choices/tastes. Ours were lemon&cherry and chocolate&nuts (eating favourite choices). Second time round edging towards lunchtime the next day, we ordered coffee cappuccino & caffe latte to start. The others joined us a short time later and we extended into lunch with couple of 1.25 L bottles acqua – frizzante & naturale - couple of fruit juices, tramezzini, white pizza bread/ham&cheese, panino/cheese/tomatoes & four pieces of thick grilled pizza/cheese/tomatoes – foods typical of the breads menu offered.
Elsewhere in the café, others were eating soups, cooked foods, mashed potatoes and similar. There were a handful of others in the cafe each time we were there – mainly people coming and going for light/snack meals and eating inside/takeaway. Given the high ambient temperatures, only the occasional/dedicated smoker was outside eating in the shade.
Peter Steele
Rome
20 July 2018
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